Members of the victims’ families sat under a white tent in front of the permanent memorial that resembles a smaller, temporary one that students constructed on April 16, just hours after student Seung Hui Cho fatally shot 32 people and injured dozens others before turning the gun on himself.

The simple memorial includes 32 limestone blocks, weighing 300 pounds each, laid out in a half-circle at the end of the Drillfield near Norris Hall, where most of the victims were killed. Victims’ names are carved in each of the stones, known as Hokie stones. The memorial does not include a stone for Cho.